The Clutter Fairy Weekly #92 – Resistance is Not Futile: Avoid or Escape the Consumerism Mindset
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Some of us love to shop, and stores and online retailers with stuff to sell know how to push our buttons to make the sale. But it’s easy for our spaces to get out of …
🙌🙌🙌 About the video game consoles!! As a mom of 4 boys, it is impossible to keep the latest and greatest version! Luckily, my oldest two have finally gained enough wisdom to see through the marketing tactics, and they play what they have. But when the companies make previous versions/games obsolete, Mama gets mad… And broke 😂😂💸💸
20:00 the sale fallacy. Buy one for $5 buy four for $10. Don’t use the other three. Toss when they spoil. You actually paid $10 for the one you did use.
100 pieces of clothing? I have 100 scarves 😹
I hate the check out in the grocery store. Delivery has spoiled me and well worth it.
I have an appliance cabinet. I only allow things that I can't do with my stove or microwave. No instant pots, no air fryers, kitchen aids, not even a toaster. It makes me so happy!
I like the idea of making a personal memory box with a note giving the person who gets it permission to get rid of it when I'm gone.
The other thing that has got me through losing my husband and downsizing my home has been a mantra, "Don is not this stuff, and this stuff is not my husband." I find myself reminding myself that I will always love and adore him, but hanging on to his things does not make me love him more. And keeping it won't bring him back.
Today I took an entire car and trunk load to my local donation store (Habitat Restore) and a community clothes closet! I also donated a bunch of ballet clothes from when I was a little girl to a dance studio! Great progress and we've made a huge dent in the garage !
I've been Unsubscribing to those relentless emails. Hopefully they'll start to slim down over time. I just don't need the daily prompts to cruise through web pages of stuff I don't even want and won't even buy.
When you subscribe to your local Public TV station, or get a museum membership, or concert subscription, you are immediately put on their own mailing list for future donation requests. AND your name, address, etc is sold to several mailing list companies, which then sell it to 500+ other educational, cultural, social or charitable organizations. Whenever possible, I ask myself if I really need that organization's newsletter, or the cheap tote bag or baseball cap. If not, I just send them an anonymous money order for the amount of the subscription. This way, they get the contribution but I don't get buried under a mountain of mail and spam.
Of course, if you need a receipt for taxes, or they're sending you concert tickets or a membership card for free admissions, you have to find some other way to deal with it. Sometimes the organization lets you opt out of receiving mail from "third parties" when you sign up. Bless those people! It seems to have occurred to them that the prospect of all that spam was costing them donors and subscribers.
Can I ask why the "homework" is called the Tittle?
I don't understand why the IP is so hard to clean? I only remove the silicone ring and wash the inside of the lid by hand and the pot goes in the dishwasher, it's super easy if you are not overfilling it past the fill line no food even touches the lid? Every now and then I'll deep clean it but most of the time it's fine. The only thing that is a pain is the trivet but if you soak it and chuck it in the dishwasher it is easy enough
I prepaid my funeral (not as a result of the tittle). Feels good knowing it’s done and no one has to make the decisions.
Re: food processor: ditto for juicers!
My granddaughters have loads of toys. Last year my daughter requested that all relatives who usually buy way too many toys for them at Christmas only buy one thing. I honored that. Some did but others didn't. Think she's doing the same thing this year. Each girl will get one gift from me this year as well.
I listened to your videos as I packed to move to my smaller lake home. You gave me the courage and insights into letting go of many of my possessions. Downsizing was mentally and physically exhausting but I feel better now that it is done! Thank you for all you do on your channel!!!
Your videos have been really useful for me
Thank you so much
Ironically I was looking up the Act of Contrition Prayer and an Etsy shop came up to sell it! Love your show!
Someone said "The harder they try to sell it to you, the less you need it".
I like the mail-order catalogues but the useless, little, free gift you get with any purchase has finally made me stop. And there's no option to decline it. A dinky little black coin purse?!? I know I am never going to use it and you cant donate that away. OpShops will not take them as donations because they are already overwhelmed by little black bags and purses. They go straight into the dumpster apparently. What a waste.
While ordering a shirt I really liked, I discovered the shipping for ONE item was 17.00 and the only way I could qualify for a 20% discount was to allow text message ads. I backed out of the order because I don't like the idea of volunteering to get spam or ridiculously high shipping charges. The retailer chased me down online and offered free shipping without my asking. I got the shirt. I don't need them as much as they need me.
what saves me is "if I didn't need it before I saw it, I don't need it after I saw it".
and what I need is not something I can buy.
I have a couple of questions about paper clutter. Do I need to keep the receipts from my vets’ office showing what was done and when or is that unnecessary since they are required to keep those records? My cats have been going to the same place since I adopted them as tiny kittens and I have no intention of changing that.
Also, do I need to keep old car inspection, oil change receipts, etc?
TIA
One thing that helps me curb unnecessary spending is to tell myself that if I've lived without the shiny object bedazzling me, I don't need it. Also, if I really want it, it will be available tomorrow. Needless to say I never go back the next day.
I recently unsubscribed from a few stores' email lists. Rarely opened the emails and never bought the items they promoted. It's amazing how much those emails cluttered my inbox.
Now to deal with the oversupply of Halloween candy occupying space in the pantry…